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$1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package could change social safety net forever Share Updated: 1:30 PM CST Mar 12, 2021 Associated Press $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package could change social safety net forever Share Updated: 1:30 PM CST Mar 12, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript BUSINESSES STAND TO BENEFIT. >> THIS IS THE FIRST FIVE PAGES OF THE MORE THAN 600 PAGE COVID RELIEF PLAN. MANY OF THE THINGS ARE COMING AT THE RIGHT TIME. FOR THOSE WHO ARE U...

President Biden, when signing the package into law Thursday, referenced it as an overt attempt to redraw the country's economic fault lines in a way that's bigger than the pandemic.

President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package is being hailed as a generational expansion of the social safety net.

Op-ed: 1.8M Hoosiers struggled during pre-pandemic normal. Nows the time to aim higher. Mark Muro and Robert Maxim, Indianapolis Star This is the new normal for high schoolers, nearly one year into the coronavirus pandemic Replay Video Indiana has momentum as it moves (knock on wood) beyond the worst of the pandemic.  As recently as December, the state’s employment level was just 1.4% below that of February 2020, good for the ninth-fastest rebound among states.  Enabling the...

Phoenix leads in growth, but wealth disparity is wide, report shows NAIOP Posted at 8:54 AM, Feb 26, 2021 and last updated 2021-02-26 10:55:13-05 Phoenix has consistently been one of the fastest-growing large metros in the country, but new data from the Brookings Institution shows prosperity has not kept up with the growing population. Brookings Metro Monitor ranked Phoenix 19th out of 53 very large metros on growth and 46th on prosperity using data from 2009 to 2019. He notes that although th...

The change in immigration policy that could most affect the US' long-term economic growth is at risk of falling out of the debate as the congressional maneuvering over the volatile issue intensifies.

A version of this article was first published in Next City. Last summer, the House of Representatives passed the Moving Forward Act, a $1.5 trillion plan to upgrade the national infrastructure and combat climate change by reducing demand for fossil fuels. The bill incorporated a handful of amendments related to housing and homelessness offered by a group of Congressional Democrats. One of those amendments, introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), would have repealed the Faircloth Ame...

A landmark study from the Brookings Institution suggests while Indiana has had one of the best recoveries from the pandemic, it still has many struggles to overcome. The first-ever study was conducted

The Senate never took up the Moving Forward Act. But housing advocates continue to focus on repealing the Faircloth Amendment. The New York Times recently ran an op-ed labeling a repeal of the rule as the “first step to addressing the country’s housing affordability problem.” On the other side, Jenny Schuetz, a senior fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at The Brookings Institution, recently argued that “focusing debate on the Faircloth Amendment is a red herring—a political dis...

Growing number of cities requiring grocery chains to provide hazard pay By: Scripps National and last updated 2021-02-05 15:19:52-05 Grocery store workers across the country arent getting the hazard pay they received from their employers at the beginning of the pandemic anymore. But now, a growing number of cities are starting to require large grocery chains to give that extra pay again. This week, Seattle became the latest city to have that mandate go into effect. Large grocery...